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closer to them than to each other; posterior row strongly recurved, 
eyes subequal in size and with a diameter one and one-half that of 
the anterior median; posterior median separated by less than the 
diameter of one of them, a little farther from the lateral. Upper 
half of clypeus with a band of short, white hairs connecting white 
patches on sides of head; lower margin of clypeus dark reddish 
brown clothed with short, brown hairs. Chelicera dark reddish 
brown to black, sides and distal end with long, white hairs. Abdo- 
men above with ground color light yellow; a median band of 
brown, narrow anteriorly but. widened abruptly about the :mid- 
dle of the length of the abdomen, is clothed with short, white and 
brown hairs; behind middle, the median band is twice constricted ; 
sides of abdomen grayish; venter with a black-bordered median 
light yellowish white band widest anteriorly and tapering from epi- 
gastric furrow to spinnerets. Spinnerets reddish. Legs yellowish 
or reddish brown mottled with patches of brown and white hairs; 
coxae reddish brown. Sternum reddish brown clothed with mixed 
white pubescence and long, dark hairs. Labium and endites dark 
reddish brown, lighter distally. Epigynum: the lateral lobes unite 
in front of the median lobe and are barely separated behind ; median 
lobe widest in front, tapering to a blunt point behind. 
Male (alcohol): Length, 16-17mm; legs, 1-2-4-3, 49-40-45-33mm ; 
pling ipl pies, 1: 
Cephalothorax and abdomen above marked as in female. Legs 
proportionally longer, much lighter colored and indistinctly blotched 
with long, brown hair on femora, patellae, and tibiae; below, coxae 
and femora immaculate, dingy yellow; joints beyond, darker; fourth 
pair longer than first. Sternum, endites and labium light yellow; 
abdomen beneath with a light median stripe bordered with brown; 
sides of abdomen below, yellow. Tibia of palpus with a bunch of 
strong spines on the distal end beneath; external apophysis broad, 
concave internally and truncated at tip; a broad, rounded tooth 
at the base of apophysis on anterior side. 
Synonymy 
Dolomedes albineus Hentz, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., 1845, 5:180-190, 
pl. 16, fig. 2 (female) 
Dolomedes albineus Hentz, Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 
1868, 11 :103, fig. 73 
Dolomedes albineus Hentz, Reprint, Occ. Papers Bost. Soc. Nat. 
St Zao 7 Sep SONDENONIoAuAl plan TO ues 
Dolomedes albineus, Banks, Ent. News, 1808, 9:142 
Dolomedes albineus, Marx, Proc. Nat. Mus., 1890, 12:566 
Diolionmle dies) vay prinverttis my Banks Wn rocum Ndi SClimiehilaOoTemnee.: 
530, 538 
